Europos:Oh noes, she has a level 85 Paladin cow! I bet her opponent collects stamp in his free time!

Actually, this time, maybe the Maine Republicans have a valid point. Not that I ever thought I'd say something like that. But their attack ad makes a big deal about the fact that Colleen Lachowicz's character is an assassination rogue. And everybody knows you should never trust a rogue, so it does reflect on her credibility for this race.

Funny, coming from people whose core beliefs include an invisible sky wizard who acts more like a drunken deadbeat dad than a loving being, the USSR being the largest threat to our very existence, and who believes that the female human body can not become pregnant if she is raped by turning off certain things.

ciberido:Europos: Oh noes, she has a level 85 Paladin cow! I bet her opponent collects stamp in his free time!

Actually, this time, maybe the Maine Republicans have a valid point. Not that I ever thought I'd say something like that. But their attack ad makes a big deal about the fact that Colleen Lachowicz's character is an assassination rogue. And everybody knows you should never trust a rogue, so it does reflect on her credibility for this race.

A website produced by Republicans includes a link to Lachowicz's online character, Santiaga, who sports a purple Mohawk and is armed with a meteor shard. It notes that the game takes place in a "make believe land Azeroth" and that Lachowicz is "playing at level 85 - the highest level one can attain."

As usually, the Republicans can't even get their facts right... I rate this a Pants On Fire statement!!

KellyX:A website produced by Republicans includes a link to Lachowicz's online character, Santiaga, who sports a purple Mohawk and is armed with a meteor shard. It notes that the game takes place in a "make believe land Azeroth" and that Lachowicz is "playing at level 85 - the highest level one can attain."

As usually, the Republicans can't even get their facts right... I rate this a Pants On Fire statement!!

That said, the comments in the article itself were sterling. Lots of Invisible sky wizard commentary. BTW, they lied about her participation lately. She was fishing in Northrend in mid-September. However, that hardly counts as devil worship. She was probably relaxing in front of the TV set.

My main was 90 a week after MoP launched, and would have been sooner if the weekend hadn't been taken up by my birthday. I leveled my hunter to 85 practically by accident, without ever actually learning how to play a hunter (and I'm still not entirely sure why I did it; I still don't play him). Maxing a character is not some kind of big deal; this is "playing as expected" in Blizzard terms. :p

This reminds me of Mitt Romney apologizing to his constituents for inadvertently advertising on ... fanfiction.net. He sees people who write fanfic, all fanfic, as so fundamentally abhorrent that even showing them his ads requires an abject apology to the voters.

vpb:Obama4Life: But really, is this the best the retard-icans can muster? OMG, she plays World of Warcraft! Get your torches and pitchforks!

I don't know. D&D used to be the work of the devil as far as the fundies were concerned, so this might be the same.

It's just trying to make something that is relatively popular into something weird. "She goes into a DIFFERENT WORLD called AZEROTH where she can KILL".

It's liked describing a football fan as someone who spends the weekend watching 22 young men, often dressed loosely as animals or racist caricatures smashing into each other, sweating, and patting each other on the ass. Some of these boys no older than 18!

Curious:it bothers me to this day that a sitting president would lie under oath.

ok that looks silly given what we know other presidents have done. but while the WMD lies did far more damage it still bothers me that Clinton couldn't just own up to his indiscretion. hell when the stories about the book and the late night phone calls came i out i empathized with him. why lie about a BJ?

So it would have been okay if she read fantasy novels, was into civil war reenactment, paintball/laser tag, but playing an online game where the characters are fictional races makes her unfit for office.

ladyfortuna:My personal opinion is I'd much rather be fighting creatures and casting spells than... working in an office... but since that can't actually HAPPEN, what's wrong with pretending some of the time?

*I cast level three magic missile on Unruly Customer*

Zackly. I've been a PC gamer forever (hey, the C64 was a personal computer back in the 80s). The pretend aspect is fun, it's a stress reliever and sometimes it's just nice to deal with problems you CAN solve for a few hours. Especially if explosions are involved.

Obama4Life:Real Women Drink Akvavit: Obama4Life: So in the 70s and 80s it was Dungeons and Dragons and now it's World of Warcraft

Oh, it's still D&D and LARPers and even the SCA from time to time, it's just now they have "super realistic" (um, no) video games to add to the list of things that are obvious signs your child worships teh debbil.

My father is an ultra-ultra Conservative (so much so that I joke that he makes Rush Limbaugh look like Maxine Waters) and was an old-school Southern Baptist Preacher for years.

He threw all of my AD&D books in the fireplace and said 'That's where you'll end up if you play "Satan's Game"'

That's really awful.

The only objection my parents had to AD&D was that it ate into time better spent studying & doing homework. Other than that, they had no interest or concern about it.

/ stopped playing in HS, when friends lost interest in it and I got an afterschool job...// kinda sad, actually /// I imagine WoW and other online games have pretty much killed D&D ( I saw what they did to the 4th ed. :-( )

MooseUpNorth:If I'd farked up to that degree, the last thing I would have wanted to do is cause additional hurt to my wife.

true but he was under oath. and frankly given his history and that he was under oath in the paula jones mess hilary probably was already pissed and had been for some time. as for hurting her he really should have thought about that sooner.

the man was under oath.

did i mention a sitting president lied UNDER OATH !!!!

that nixon lied as LBJ did before him and reagan did later doesn't allow me to give clinton any slack.

About a matter that was not illegal, had nothing whatsoever to do with his ability to do his job, was noone's business except Mrs Clinton's (and arguably their kid), and should never have been asked. Let's keep some perspective here.

/ I wouldn't have cared if Bush and Cheney were getting it on, live on CSPAN.

WordyGrrl:ladyfortuna:My personal opinion is I'd much rather be fighting creatures and casting spells than... working in an office... but since that can't actually HAPPEN, what's wrong with pretending some of the time?

*I cast level three magic missile on Unruly Customer*

Zackly. I've been a PC gamer forever (hey, the C64 was a personal computer back in the 80s). The pretend aspect is fun, it's a stress reliever and sometimes it's just nice to deal with problems you CAN solve for a few hours. Especially if explosions are involved.

Several years before their demise, I worked at Circuit City for about a year, starting in November before The Madness. We had a PS2 and Grand Theft Auto III constantly going in the break room, and I recall once watching a relatively sweet female customer service rep gleefully get to five stars (via the usual fashion) and get shot down by the military. It was awesome.

/That's how you keep your sanity in retail//So think twice before yelling at that clerk who's just following the rules

Forbidden Doughnut:Obama4Life: Real Women Drink Akvavit: Obama4Life: So in the 70s and 80s it was Dungeons and Dragons and now it's World of Warcraft

Oh, it's still D&D and LARPers and even the SCA from time to time, it's just now they have "super realistic" (um, no) video games to add to the list of things that are obvious signs your child worships teh debbil.

My father is an ultra-ultra Conservative (so much so that I joke that he makes Rush Limbaugh look like Maxine Waters) and was an old-school Southern Baptist Preacher for years.

He threw all of my AD&D books in the fireplace and said 'That's where you'll end up if you play "Satan's Game"'

That's really awful.

The only objection my parents had to AD&D was that it ate into time better spent studying & doing homework. Other than that, they had no interest or concern about it.

/ stopped playing in HS, when friends lost interest in it and I got an afterschool job...// kinda sad, actually /// I imagine WoW and other online games have pretty much killed D&D ( I saw what they did to the 4th ed. :-( )

You might want to check out Pathfinder. It's what D&D 4 should have been.